Sounds like my father in law. When my husband was in preschool he fell off of a slide and my mother in law called to tell him that she was taking him to the ER. "Not in the car you aren't! He might bleed on the upholstery!" She had to borrow a car to take him to the ER.

Brought back an old memory. I rode to the LA hospital (one hour away) to have Baby, sitting on a rubber crib sheet in DH's 1-week-old Volvo. Told everyone (afterwards) that I feared he'd put me out on the Freeway if my water broke in the car![It didn't...and he didn't...and 17 years later, I taught her to drive in the same car.]

My mothers water broke when she was pregnant with me in my dad's bmw...so while she was at the hospital giving birth, my dad was at home washing out the car....31 years later and she's still mad at him about it....

Welcome to my whining!

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